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  Only one in three consumers install firmware updates right away

  Publié: décembre 20, 2016, 11:23am CET par Sead Fadilpašić

  Less than a third (31 percent) of consumers in the UK perform firmware updates on their devices as soon as they become available, a new report by Ubuntu Core, a Canonical company working on connected devices, says. Four in ten (40 percent) have never updated the firmware on their devices, ever. This leaves them extremely vulnerable to attacks, as firmware updates are also designed to patch security holes. What’s also interesting is that a significant number of consumers don’t even think it’s their responsibility to keep their devices up-to-date and protected. A quarter (22 percent) thinks software developers should worry about it,… [Continue Reading]